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High-risk psychiatric patients fitted with GPS
Some high-risk psychiatric patients are being fitted with satellite tracking devices by hospitals to stop them escaping and reoffending.
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Cumbrian ambulance staff offered counselling
Ambulance staff who attended the crime scenes after the shootings in west Cumbria will be offered a counselling service to cope with the aftermath of the event, the ambulance service said.
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Trusts to report weekly on infection
The Department of Health has asked the Health Protection Agency to publish hospital infection reports on a rolling basis.
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Scotland NHS cuts 'will overstretch workforce'
Cuts to the NHS in Scotland could lead to a overstretched and demoralised workforce, health service unions have said.
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Pharma risk-sharing scheme a 'costly failure'
A risk-sharing agreement between the government and drug companies to supply expensive multiple sclerosis medicines was a “costly failure”, experts have claimed.
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NHS Direct launches treatment decision aids
A trial project to provide patients with information to make better treatment decisions has been launched by NHS Direct.
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ASBO issued to patient who faked illness
A homeless man with over 70 aliases, who became an expert at faking illness so he could gain overnight admittance to hospitals, was issued with a three year criminal ASBO.
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Huge A&E attendance gaps revealed
The proportion of patients attending accident and emergency departments who are not sick enough to require an admission varies widely across England, unpublished data seen exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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NHS reputation is on a par with Iceland chain
The English NHS has a public reputation roughly on a par with frozen food retailer Iceland or the UK media sector, according to a unique analysis exclusively obtained by HSJ.
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‘In intervention’ PCT is to investigate failings
NHS Portsmouth City has been placed “in intervention” by its strategic health authority.
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Barnett's resignation prompts call for strong NHS Confederation
Managers are urging the NHS Confederation to ensure it provides the health service with a strong, independent voice following the resignation of chief executive Steve Barnett.
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We need the NHS Confederation – now here’s the sort of leader that it needs
Steve Barnett’s resignation as the chief executive of the NHS Confederation is a cause for sadness - he is a well-liked man - but it is also an opportunity.
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Choice more important to patients than doctors
GPs resistant to offering choice of hospital treatment are underestimating its importance to patients and undermining its ability to improve quality of care.
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Top board members leave NHS London
Two members of NHS London’s non-executive board, including its chair, resigned last week after health secretary Andrew Lansley’s “halt” of its capital-wide reconfiguration programme.
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Short GP appointment times 'hit diagnostic ability', survey claims
Doctors are struggling to diagnose patients because appointment times are too short, a survey of 200 GPs suggests.
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Calmer chameleon: the new face of Monitor
Monitor’s new chair Steve Bundred wants to put the gladiatorial era of his predecessor behind him and usher in a new spirit of co-operation. Endless battles with the Department of Health are out; faith in the health secretary is in, he tells Dave West
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Monitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet
Foundation trusts should be freed from one of the shackles put in place during the Labour government’s internal battle over their creation, Monitor’s new chair has said.
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‘Patient safety must survive quango cull’
Health Foundation chief executive Stephen Thornton has urged health secretary Andrew Lansley to put patient safety “centre stage” and to “cull [NHS] quangos with care”.
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McKinsey report: unthinkable solutions set scene for NHS cuts
What lies behind the governments’s decision to publish the McKinsey report into NHS cost savings this week?
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C diff deaths at Salford Royal
An investigation is under way at one of the country’s top performing trusts following an outbreak of C difficile.